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A67489	The wonders of the little world, or, A general history of man in six books : wherein by many thousands of examples is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world to these times, in respect of his body, senses, passions, affections, his virtues and perfections, his vices and defects, his quality, vocation and profession, and many other particulars not reducible to any of the former heads : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, physicians, philologists and others / by Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing W709; ESTC R8227	1,275,688	591

any of them he had his finger ready to pull out one of their eyes and not only so but it seems that so great was his Antipathy towards all that laboured under that kind of Infamy that at the casual sight of any such with the very commotion of his mind he would vomit up choler and such a sudden burning would come into his face that he could not speak for the present so much as one single word Great sure is that filthiness which excited a loathing in so gallant and great a man but the Histories of these bold and subtil practitioners will not I hope prove altogether so nauseous 1. Richard Smyth of Shirford in Warwickshire having but one only daughter called Margaret and doubting of issue Male treated with Sir Iohn Littleton of Frankley in Worcestershire for a marriage betwixt his said daughter and William Littleton third son to the said Sir Iohn In consideration whereof he agreed to settle all his Lands in remainder after his own decease without other issue upon the said William and Margaret and the Heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten but for lack of such issue to return to his own right Heirs And having writings drawn accordingly trusted the said Sir Iohn Littleton to get them engrossed which being effected and a day appointed for sealing Mr. Smith came over to Frankley where he ●ound very noble entertainment and some of Sir Iohn's friends to bear him company in whose presence the writings were brought forth and begun to be read but before they came to the uses stept in Sir Iohn Littletons Keeper in a sweat and told them that there were a brace of Bucks at Lare in the Park which carryed a Glass in their Tayls for Mr. Smiths Dogs to look in for he loved coursing well and had his Grey-hounds there but if they made not haste those Market people which passed through the Park would undoubtedly rouse them Whereupon Sir Iohn Littleton earnestly moved Mr. Smith to seal the Writings without further reading protesting they were according to the draughts he had seen and without any alteration Which bold asseverations putting him out of all suspicion of sinister dealing caused him forthwith to seal them and go into the Park Hereupon the two children for they were not above nine years old a piece were married together and lived in the House with Sir Iohn but about six years after the young man dyed by a fall from his Horse and Mr. Smith resolved to take his Daughter away Sir Iohn designing to marry her again to George his second Son refused to deliver her till which Mr. Smith never suspected any thing in the deed formerly so sealed as hath been said but then upon the difference betwixt him and Sir Iohn it appeared that for want of issue by the before specified William and Margaret the Lands were to devolve unto the right Heirs of the said William which was Gilbert Littleton his eldest Brother contrary to the plain agreement at first made What success attended all this take in short From Gilbert these Lands descended to Iohn his Son from him to the Crown as being one of the Conspiracy with Essex in the forty second of Eliz. and dyed in Prison After which Muriel his Wi●dow petitioned King Iames for a restitution of his Lands and obtained it but doubting further troubles by sutes with Mr. Smith sold them away to Serjeant Hele a great Lawyer who considering the first foundation of Littletons Title that they might be the better defended disposed of them to his five sons but such is the fate that follows these possessions that for want of a publick adversary these Brothers are now at suit among themselves for them And as none of the line of Gilbert Littleton to whom they descended by the fore-specified fraud doth enjoy a foot of them so 't is no less observable that the Son and Heir of George by the same Margaret to wit Stephen Littleton of Holbeach in Worcestershire was attended with a very hard fate being one of the Gunpowder Conspirators in 3 Iac. for which he lost his life and estate 2. Earle Godwin cast a covetous eye on the fair Nunnery of Berkley in Gloucestershire and thus contrived it for himself he left there a handsome Young Man really or seemingly sick for their charity to recover who quickly grew well and wanton He is toying tempting taking such fire and flax quickly make a flame The Sisters lose their chastity and without taking Wife in the way are ready to make Mothers The Young Man if sick returns to Earl Godwin in health leaving the healthful Nuns sick behind him The fame hereof ●ills the Country flies to Court is complained of by Earl Godwin to the King Officers are sent to enquire they return it to be true the Nuns are turned out their house and lands forfeited both bestowed on Earl Godwin surprized weakness being put out and designing wickedness placed in the room thereof 3. At another time the said Earl had a mind to the rich mannour of Boseham in Sussex and complemented it out of Robert Archbishop of Canterbury on this manner Coming to the Archbishop he said Da mihi Basium that is give me a buss or kiss an usual favour from such a Prelate The Archbishop returns Do tibi Basium kissing him there with an holy Kiss perchance as given but a crafty one as taken for Godwin presently poasts to Boseham and takes possession thereof and though here was neither real intention in him who passed it away nor valuable consideration to him but a meer circumvention yet such was Godwins power and the Archbishops poorness of Spirit that he quietly enjoyed it These rich and ancient Mannors of Berkley and Boseham Earl Godwins brace of Cheats and distant an hundred miles from each other are now both met in the Right Honourable George Berkley as Heir apparent thereof his Ancestors being long since possessed of them 4. Maccus a famous Cheat came into the Shop of a Shoomaker at Leyden and saluted him casting his eye upon a pair of Boots that h●ng up the Shoomaker asked if he would buy them the other seemed willing they were taken down drawn on and fitted him very well Now saith he how well would a pair of double sole Shoos fit these Boots They were found and fitted to his feet upon the Boots Now saith Maccus tell me true doth it never so fall out that such as you have so fitted for a race as you have now done me run away without paying Never said the other but said he if it should be so what would you then do I would follow him said the Shoomaker Well saith Maccus I will try and thereupon began to run the Shoomaker immediately followed crying stop thief stop thief at which the Citizens came out of their Houses but Maccus laughing Let no man said he hinder our race for we run for a Cup of Ale whereupon all set themselves quiet spectators of

was easily slain In the mean time Fleance so prospered in Wales that he gained the affection of the Princes Daughter of the Country and by her had a Son called Walter who ●lying Wales returned into Scotland where his descent known he was restored to the Honors and Lands of his House and preferred to be Steward of the House of Edgar the Son of Malcolme the Third sirnamed Conmer King of Scotland the name of Steward growing hence hereditary unto his Posterity From this Walter descended that Robert Steward who succeeded David Bruce in the Kingdom of Scotland the Progenitor of nine Kings of the name of Stewart which have reigned successively in that Kingdom 3. Oliver a Benedictine Monk of Malmesbury was much addicted to the Mathematicks and to Judicial Astrology a great Comet happened to appear in his ●●e which he entertained with these expressions Venisti Venist● multis matribus lugendum malum Dudum te vidi sed multò jam terribilius Anglicae minans prorsus excidium Art thou come Art thou come thou evil to be lamented by many mothers I saw thee long since but now thou art much more terrible threatning the English with utter destruction Nor did he much miss his mark herein for soon after the coming in of the Norman Conqueror deprived many English of their lives more of their Laws and Liberties This Oliver dyed 1060. five years before the Norman Invasion and so prevented by death saw not his own prediction performed 4. Agrippa the Son of Aristobulus was accused to Tiberius Caesar and by his command cast into bonds standing thus bound amongst others before the Palace gates by reason of grief he leaned against a Tree upon which there sate an Owl A certain German that was also in bonds beholding the Bird inquired of a Souldier what Noble man that was who told him that it was Agrippa a Prince of the Jews The German desired he might be permitted to come nearer to him it was granted when he thus said Young man this sudden and unexpected mutation of Fortune doth torment and perplex thee but in a short time thou shalt be freed of these bonds and raised to a dignity and power that shall be the envy of all these who now look upon thee as a miserable person know also that whensoever thou shalt see an Owl pearch over thy head after the manner of this now present it shall betoken to thee that thy fatal end draweth nigh All this was fulfilled for soon after Tiberius dyed Caius succeeded who loosed the bonds of Agrippa and placed the Crown of Iudaea on his head there he reigned in great splendour when one day having ended a Royal Oration he had made to the people with great acclamation and applause turning back his head he spyed the fatal Owl sitting over his head whereupon he was seised with torments of the belly carried away and in few days dyed 5. When Flavius Vespasianus made War in Iudaea amongst the noble Captives there was one called Ioseph who being cast into bonds by his order did nevertheless constantly affirm that those shackles of his should in a short time be taken off by the same person who had commanded them to be put on but by that time he should of a private man become Emperour which soon after f●ll out for Nero Galba Otho and Vitellius the Emperors being slain in a short space Vespasian succeeded and commanded Iosephs setters not to be unlocked but for the greater honour to be broken off 6. Manahem a Jew an Essaean beholding on a time Herod the Ascalonite at School amongst the rest of the youth saluted him King of the Jews Herod supposing he either mocked or knew him not told him he was one of the mean●r sort Manahem smiling and giving him a gentle blow or two Thou shalt reign said he and prosperously too for so is the pleasure of God and remember then these blows of Manahem which may admonish thee of mutable Fortune but I foresee thou wilt be unmindful both of the Laws of God and man though otherwise most fortunate and illustrious Herod lived to fulfil all this 7. Iudas of the Sect of the Essaeans amongst the Jews being not used to fail in his predictions when he beheld Antigonus the Brother of Aristobulus the Brother of Aristobulus to pass by the Temple of Ierusalem of whom he had predicted that he should that day be slain in the Tower of Strato he turned to his friends wishing that himself might dye since he was alive The Tower of Strato said he is six hundred furlongs off so that my prediction is not possible to be fulfilled on this day as I pronounced but scarce had he finished his discourse when news comes that Antigonus was slain in a Cave that was called the Tower of Strato and thus the prediction was fulfilled though not well understood by him who was the Author of it 8. While Iulius Caesar was sacrificing Spurina a Soothsayer advised him to beware of the Ides of March when therefore they were come and that there was no visible appearance of danger Caesar sent for Spurina Well said he the Ides of March are come and I see nothing in them so formidable as thy caution to me would seem to import They are come indeed said Spurina but they are not past that unhappy accident which was threatned may yet fall out nor was he mistaken for upon the same day Iulius was slain in the Senate house by Brutus and Cassius and the rest of their Complices 9. When Vitellius the Emperour had set forth an Edict that the Mathematicians should at a certain day depart the City and Italy it self there was a Paper affixed to a publick place wherein was writ that the Cha daeans did predict good Fortune for before the day appointed for their departure Vitellius should no where be found nor did it miscarry in the event Vitellius being slain before the day came 10. Proclus Larginus having in Germany predicted that Domitian the Emperour should dye upon such a day was laid hold upon and for that cause sent to Rome where when before Domitian himself he had affirmed the very same he was sentenced to death with order to keep him till the day of his prediction was past and then that on the next he should dye in case what he had foretold of the Emperour proved false but Domitian was slain by Stephanus upon the very day as he had said whereupon the Soothsayer escaped and was enlarged with great honour 11. Ascletarion was one singularly skilled in Astrology and he also had predicted the day and hour of Domitians death and being asked by the Emperour what kind of death he himself should dye I shall shortly said he be torn in pieces by Dogs the Emperour therefore commands that he should be slain forthwith publickly burnt and to mock the vanity and temerity of his Art he ordered that the ashes of his body should be

yearly for ever fo●ty two pounds for a Lecture in St. Michael Bassings-Hall yearly ten pounds to the poor of Newgate twenty pounds to the two Compters to Ludgate and Bethlehem to each of them ten pounds to the four prisons in Southwark twenty pounds thirteen shillings four pence to the poor of Bassingshall ten pounds to Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge to buy lands to maintain two Follows and two Scholars six hundred pounds to the building of the Colledge fifty pounds to be lent unto poor Merchants ●ive hundred pounds to the Hospitals of St. Bartholomew and St. Thomas each of ●hem ●i●ty pounds to the Poor of Bridewel twenty pounds to poor Maids marriages one hundred pounds to poor Strangers of the Dutch and French Churches fifty pounds towards the building of the Pesthouse two hundrad pounds The sum of these gifts in money amounteth to more than seventeen hundred pounds and the yearly Annuities to seventy two pounds 11 Sir Iohn Gresham Mercer and Mayor of London Anno 1548. in the Second year of King Edward the sixth gave ten pounds to the poor to every ward in London which are twenty four within the City And to one hundred and twenty poor men and women to every one of them three yards of Cloth for a Gown of eight or nine shillings a yard to Maids marriages and the Hospitals in London above two hundred pounds He also founded a Free School at Holt a Market Town in Norfolk 12. Mr. Thomas Ridge Grocer gave to charitable uses one thousand one hundred sixty three pounds six shillings and eight pence viz. To the company of Grocers to be lent to two young men free of the company an hundred pound to his men and maid servants sixty three pounds six shillings eight pence unto the Hospitals about London one hundred pounds unto Preachers four hundred pounds to poor Tradesmen in and about London three hundred pounds for a Lecture in Grace-Church one hundred pounds and in Gowns for poor men one hundred pounds 13. Mr. Robert Offley Haberdasher gave six hundr●d pounds to the Mayor and Commonalty of Chester to be lent to young Tradesmen and for the relief of poor and Prisons and other such charitable uses two hundred pounds he gave to the company of the Haberdashers to be lent to freemen gratis two hundred pounds more to pay ten pound yearly to the poor of the company two hundred pounds more to give ten pounds per annum to two Scholars in each University one to Bethlehem one hundred pounds to other Hospitals Prisons and poor one hundred and sixty pounds more in toto one thousand four hundred and sixty pounds 14. The Lady Mary Ramsey who in the life time of Sir Thomas Ramsey joyning with him and after his death assured in Land two hundred forty three pounds per annum to Christs Hospital in London to these uses following to the Schoolmaster of Hawstead annually twenty pounds to the Master and Usher in Christs Church by the year twenty pounds to ten poor Widows besides apparel and houses yearly twenty pounds to two poor a man and a woman during life to each ●ifty three shillings four pence to two fellows in Peter-house in Cambridge and four Scholars yearly forty pouuds to St. Bartholomews Hospital ten pounds to Newgate Ludgate Compters ten pounds to Christs Hospital after the expiration of certain Leases there will come per annum one hundred and twenty pound to St. Peters the poor in London St. Andrews Vnder-shaft St. Mary Woolnoth ten pounds to six Scholars in Cambrid●e twenty pounds to six Scholars in Oxford twenty pounds to ten maimed Soldiers twenty pounds for two Sermons ●orty shillings to the poor of Christs Church Parish ●i●ty shillings to the poor of the company of Drapers yearly ten pounds ten poor womens Gowns ten poor Soldiers Coats Shooes and Caps All these gifts aforesaid are to continue yearly 15. Mr. George Blundel Clothier of London by his last Will and Testament Anno 1599. bequeathed as followeth To Christs Hospital five hundred pounds to St. Bartholomews two hundred and fifty pounds to St. Thomas Hospital two hundred and fifty pounds to Bridewel yearly eight pounds towards Tiverton Church fifty pounds to mend the high ways there one hundred pounds to the twelve chief Companies in London to each one hundred and fifty pounds towards the releiving of poor prisoners and other charitable uses in toto one thousand eight hundred pounds For poor Maids marriages in Tiverton four hundred pounds to the City of Exeter to be lent unto poor Artificers nine hundred pounds towards the building of the free Grammar School in Tiverton two thousand four hundred pounds laid out since by his Executors Sir William Craven and others one thousand pounds to the Schoolmaster yearly fifty pounds to the Usher thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence to the Clark ●orty shillings for reparations eight pounds to place four boys Apprentices in Husbandry yearly twenty pounds to maintain six Scholars three in Cambridge and three in Oxford the sum of two thousand pounds The sum of all counting the yearly pensions at a valuable rate together with the legacies of money maketh twelve thousand pounds or thereabouts 16. Mr. Rogers of the company of Leather-sellers gave by his Will as followeth to the Prisons about London twelve pounds to the poor of two towns in the West Country thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence to the poor of the town of Pool where he was born ten pounds to build Alms-houses there three hundred thirty three pounds to relieve poor Prisoners being neither Papists nor Atheists that may be set free ●or twenty nobles a man one hundred and fifty pounds to poor Preachers ten pounds a man one hundred pounds to poor decayed Artificers that have Wife and Children one hundred pounds to the Company of Merchant Adventurers to relieve poor decayed people and for young Freemen four hundred pounds to Christs Hospital to purchase Land for the relief of that house five hundred pounds to erect Alms-houses about London and to maintain twelve poor People threescore pounds to the Parish where he dwelt ten pounds and for two dozen of Bread every Lords day to be distributed one hundred pounds to Christs-Church Parish fifteen pounds to the Poor in divers Parishes without Newgate Cripplegate Bishopsgate and St. Georges in Southwark twenty six pounds thirteen shillings four pence to each alike To St. Georges Parish in Southwark St. Sepulchres St. Olav●s St. Gile● St. Leonards to each thirty pounds one hundred and fifty pounds to St. Botolphs without Aldgate and Bishopsgate to each twenty pounds forty pounds Given to maintain two Scholars in Oxford two in Cambridge Students in Divinity to the Company of Leather-sellers which is carefully by them employed and augmented four hundred pounds The whole Sum amounteth to two thousand nine hundred and sixty pounds six shillings eight pence 17. Mr. George Palyn by his last Will and Testament gave unto

these charitable use To erect an Alms-house about London and to allow unto six poor people yearly six pounds thirteen shillings four pence he gave nine hundred pounds Given to the Chime at Bow Church one hundred pounds Given to St. Iohn Baptists and Brazen Nose Colledge in Oxford to maintain four Scholars to each four pounds yearly to each Colledge three hundred pounds in toto six hundred pounds given to the like use to Trinity and St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge to each three hundred pounds in toto six hundred pounds To six Prisons about London sixty pounds to Christs Hospital to purchase twenty pounds per annum three hundred pounds to St. Thomas Hospital ●ifty pounds to the Preachers at Pauls Cross to bear their charges two hundred pounds to divers Parishes in London to some ten pounds to some twenty pounds one hundred thirty two pounds To the poor in Wrenbury in Cheshire to purchase twenty marks per annum two hundred pounds to the use of the Church there thirty pounds for forty poor Gowns forty pounds the sum is three thousand two hundred twelve pounds or thereabouts 18. Mr. Dove gave unto the company of the Merchant Taylors the sum of two thousand nine hundred fifty eight pounds ten shillings to pay one hundred seventy nine pounds to these uses following To maintain thirteen poor Alms-men and six in reversion per annum one hundred and seven pounds to a Schoolmaster eight pounds to the Poor of St. Botolphs twenty pounds nine shillings to the Prisoners in both Compters Ludgate and Newgate twenty pounds given to St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge one hundred pounds to Christ's Hospital to purchase sixteen pounds per annum for one to teach the boys to sing two hundred and forty pounds to toll a Bell at St. Sepulchres when the Prisoners go to execution fifty pounds 19. Sir William Craven Alderman of London hath given a thousand pound to Christ's Hospital in London to purchase Land for the maintenance of that house He hath also been a worthy Benefactor to St. Iohn's College in Oxford He hath built at Burnsall in York-shire a Church compassing it with a Wall at the charge of six hundred pounds He hath erected a School with the allowance of twenty pounds per annum He hath built one Bridge that cost him five hundred pounds another two hundred and fifty pounds a third two hundred marks a fourth twenty pounds and caused a Causway to be made at two hundred pound charge and all this in his life-time 20. Mr. Iones a Merchant abiding at Stode of the Company of the Haberdashers hath sent of late six thousand pounds to the Company to be bestow'd in Monmouth in Wales where he was born in charitable Works and that Worshipful Company hath already purchased two hundred pounds per annum and more allowing one hundred and fifty pounds per annum to an Hospital for twenty poor People and an hundred marks to a painful Preacher to preach twice on the Lord's Day 21. Mr. Robert Iohnson Arch-Deacon of Leicester Pastor of North Luffenham in the County of Rutland hath been a worthy Instrument in this kind who at his own charge hath caused two free Schools to be built in two Market Towns in that County the one at Okeham the other at Vppingham with allowance of each twenty four pounds to the Master and twelve pounds to the Usher yearly He hath also built two Hospitals called by the Name of Christ's Hospital in the aforesaid Towns with provision for each of them for twenty four poor people he purchased Lands of Queen Elizabeth which he hath laid to those Hospitals and procured a Mortmain of four hundred marks per annum Likewise he redeemed a third Hospital which had been erected by one William Darby and was dissolved being found to be concealed Land Besides he hath given the perpetual Patronage of North Luffenham to Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge that the Town may alway be provided of a sufficient Preacher He hath also made good provision in both Universities for Scholars that shall be brought up in the said Schools He hath given also twenty marks per annum towards the maintenance of Preachers that are called to Paul's C●oss He hath also been very beneficial to the town of Luffenham Stamford and other places in Rutland in providing for the education of their poor Children and placing them Apprentices 22. Mr. Iohn Heydon Alderman of London a Mercer hath given to a hundred Poor so many Gowns a hundred pound and twelve pence a piece in Money To the Company of Mercers six hundred pounds to be lent to young Men at three pound six shillings eight pence the hundred which maketh twenty pound to be given yearly to the Poor Likewise four hundred pound more he gave to the same company to be lent out at the same rate and the yearly annuity of thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence arising thereof to go to the maintaining of the Lecture in St. Michael's Pater Noster to Christ's Church Hospital five hundred pound To the eleven Companies besides eleven hundred pound to be lent out to young Men at three pound six shillings eight pence the hundred and out of the annuity arising thereof twenty pound per annum to go to the Hospitals and sixteen pound to the Poor To Exeter two hundred pound To Bristol one hundred pound To Glocester one hundred pound to be lent to young Tradesmen at three pounds six shillings eight pence the hundred to the use of poor Prisoners and poor people To the Town of Wardbery six pound thirteen shillings and four pence To the Company of Mercers for a Cup forty pound To his Servants two hundred and forty pound Out of the rest of his Moyety he gave to the aforesad Companies fifty pound to each to the uses aforesaid 23. Mrs. Owen Widow of Justice Owen founded an Hospital and Free School at Islington gave to the University Library at Oxford two hundred pound To St. Iohn's Colledge Library in Cambridge twenty pound Founded one Fellowship and Scholarship in Emanuel Colledge To Christ's Hospital sixty pounds to give twelve pence weekly to the Poor in Islington sixty six pound thirteen shillings four pence to beautifie the Cloyster in Christ's Hospital To a School-house at Edmonton twenty pound To the Parish of Condover in Shropshire fifty pound for a great Bell. The building of Alms-houses for ten poor Women at Islington and the purchase of the Lands laid to it cost her 1415 pound and the building of the School-house there three hundred sixty one pound she gave also yearly sums of Money to Preachers not Bene●iced and to the Prisons in her life-time By her last Will twenty two pound per annum for Islington School To Preachers thirty five pound To the Parish of Bassingshaw twenty pound To the Prisons eight pound To the Company of Brewers in Linnen Plate and Money a hundred pound The sum of these Moneys besides the

you forgotten that our S●nate is humane and moderate towards those they treat with But the people are high spirited and desirous of great matters If therefore in the Assembly of the people you shall declare you come with full power they will impose upon you what they please rather deal so with them as if you had not the full power and I for my part will do all I am able in favour of your State and confirm'd it to them with an Oath Next day at the Assembly of the people Alcibiades with great civility demanded of the Embassadours in what quality they came whether as Plenipotentiaries or not They denied what they had said before in the Senate and declared before the people that they had not full power to conclude matters Hereupon Alcibiades immediately cryed out That they were a sort of unfaithful and inconstant men no way to be trusted by this means he so excited both the Senate and People against them that they could do nothing CHAP. VI. Of such as were eminent Sea-men or discoverers of Lands or Passages by Sea formerly unknown WHen Anacharsis was once asked which he thought to be the greatest number of the living or the dead Of which sort said he do you take those to be that Sail upon the Seas He doubted it seems whether they were to be reputed amongst the living who permitted their lives to the pleasure ●f the Winds and Waves Had all others been possessed with the same timerous Sentiments the World had wanted those Noble Spirits who could not rest satisfied till by their own hazards they had brought one Hemisphere to some acquaintance with the other 1. Christopher Columbus born at Nervy in the Signiory of Genoa being a man of great abilities and born to undertake great matters could not perswade himself the motion of the Sun considered but that there was another World to which that glorious Planet did impart both his life and heat when he went from us This World he purposed to seek after and opening his design to the State of Genoa Anno 1486. was by them rejected Upon this repulse he sent his Brother Bartholomew to King Henry the seventh of England who in his way happened unfortunately into the hands of Pirates by whom detain'd a long while at last he was enlarged As soon as he was set at liberty he repaired to the Court of England where his proposition found such a chearful entertainment at the hands of the King that Christopher Columbus was sent for to come thither also But Christopher not knowing of his brothers imprisonment and not hearing from him conceived the offer of his S●rvice to have been neglected and thereupon made his desires known at the Court of Castile where after many delayes and six years attendance on the business he was at last furnished with three Ships only and those not for conquest but discovery With this small strength he sailed on the Ocean more than sixty daies yet could see no Land so that the discontented Spaniards began to mutiny and refused to move a foot forwards just at that time it happened that Columbus did discern the Clouds to carry a clearer colour than they did before and therefore besought them only to expect three daies longer in which space if they saw not Land he promised to return toward the end of the third day One of the company called Roderigo de Triane descried fire an evident token they drew near unto some shore The place discovered was an Island on the Coast of Florida called by Columbus St. Saviours now counted one of the Lucaios Landing his men and causing a Tree to be cut down he made a Cross thereof which he erected near the place where he came on Land and by that ceremony took possession of the New World for the Kings of Spain October 11. 1492. Afterwards he discovered and took possession of Hispaniola and with much Treasure and content returned to Spain and was preferred by the Kings themselves for this good service first to be Admiral of the Indies and in conclusion to the title of the Duke De la Vega in the Isle of Iamaica The next year he was furnished with eighteen ships for more discoveries in this second Voyage he discovered the Islands of Cuba and Iamaica and built the Town of Isabella after called Domingo in Hispaniola from whence for some severities used against the mutinous Spaniards he was sent Prisoner to Castile but very honourably entertained and absolved of all the crimes imputed to him In 1497. he began his third Voyage in which he discovered the Countrys of Pana and Cu●●na on the firm land with the Islands of Cubagna and Margarita and many other Islands Capes and Provinces In 1500. he began his fourth and last Voyage in the Course whereof coming to Hispaniola he was unworthily denyed entrance into the City of Domingo by Nicholas de Ovendo then Governour thereof After which scowring the Sea-Coasts as far as Nombre de Trias but adding little to the fortune of his ●ormer discoveries he returned back to Cuba and Iamaica and from thence to Spain where six years after he dyed and was buried honourably at Sevil Anno 1506. 2. Columbus having led the way was seconded by Americus Vesputius an adventurous Florentine employed therein by Emanuel King of Portugal Anno 1501. on a design of finding out a nearer way to the Molucca's than by the Cape of good Hope who though he passed no further than the Cape of St. Augustines in Brasile yet from him to the great injury and neglect of the first Discoverer the Continent or main Land of this Country hath the name of America by which it is still known and commonly called 3. To him succeeded Iohn Cabott a Venetian the Father of Sebastian Cabott in behalf of Henry the seventh King of England who discovered all the North Out-coasts of America from the Cape of Florida in the South to New-found-land and Terra de Laborador in the North causing the American Roytolets to turn homagers to the King and Crown of England 4. Ferdinandus Cortesius was as I suppose the most famous of all the Spaniards for the discovery of new Lands and People For passing the Promontory of Cuba that points directly to the West and is under the Tropick of Cancer and leaving Iucatana and Colvacana on the left hand he bent his course till he attained the entrance of the great River Panucus where he understood by Interpreters he had in his former Voyage that these were the Shores of the Continent which by a gentle turning was on this side connected with the Shores of Vraban but on the other Northward after a vast tract o● Land did conjoyn it self with those Countreys which Seamen call Baccalaurae He also was informed that the large and rich Kingdoms of Mexico were extended from the South to the West these Kingdoms he was desirous to visit as abounding in Gold and all kind of plenty the